DevSecOps Engineer
- Salary
- $155,000 - $185,000
- Level
- Senior
Not stated in the posting: work type, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
Dark Wolf is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to accelerate the secure delivery of mission-critical software by embedding DevSecOps practices directly into the development pipeline. The focus for this individual will be on automating deployment and security controls and building self-service platform tools to eliminate manual bottlenecks, ensuring continuous compliance and maintaining the Authority to Operate (ATO) across all environments.. This position will require hybrid support in Arlington, VA. Responsibilities include:
- Maintaining and assisting with ongoing development of continuous build/ integration infrastructure.
- Supporting CI/CD tools integration, operations, change management, and maintenance.
- Supporting full automation of CI/ testing.
- Supporting policies, standards, guidelines, governance and related guidance for both CI/CD operations and for work of developers.
- Working closely with software developers, production support, and information security to automate and support infrastructure and tooling in cloud-based platforms.
- Providing guidance and applying agile and DevOps/DevSecOps practices to streamline product delivery and reliable operations of product.
- Continuously identify opportunities to automate and save time.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in IT Security, Information Systems, or equivalent
- 8+ years of relevant work experience
- Experience working with commercial cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Extensive experience with Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and Container Security
- Experience designing Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform or Ansible
- Strong proficiency in CI/CD tooling (GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, or similar)
- Experience with Linux administration and hardening
- Demonstrated knowledge of DevSecOps processes and software supply chain security (SBOMs, signing, verification)
- Proven experience designing, deploying, operating, and maintaining secure Cloud products and services within a Cloud-based environment to enable development teams to deliver features in the most efficient way possible
- Proven experience providing Source Control Management/Documentation, creating and maintaining fully automated CI build processes for multiple environments
- Experience writing, building and deploying scripts.
- Proven experience enabling successful release management by moving code from Development and Testing environments to Staging and Production
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently and manage multiple projects
- US Citizenship and active Top Secret security clearance
This position will be supported at a hybrid capacity in Arlington, VA.
The estimated salary range for this position is $155,000.00 - $185,000.00, commensurate on experience and technical skillset.
We are strictly looking for direct, full-time W2 employees. We do not engage with third-party staffing agencies, C2C, or 1099 independent contractors for this role.
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What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Argo CD
Rare in Dark Wolf Solutions's other 51 open postings.
Standard for DevOps / SRE / cloud roles
Azure · CI/CD · Docker · GCP · Kubernetes · Linux · Terraform
Common in DevOps / SRE / cloud postings at any company.
In most of Dark Wolf Solutions's ads
AWS
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
97% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Dark Wolf Solutions's standard text, folded away below.
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The team: Software Delivery & Cloud HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 10 open in Software Delivery & Cloud. 2 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Agile (8 of 10), AWS (8 of 10), Terraform (8 of 10), Azure (7 of 10), CI/CD (7 of 10), GitLab (7 of 10), Kubernetes (7 of 10)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Platform Engineer posted Oct 8
- Front End Engineer posted Sep 21
- DevSecOps Engineer posted Sep 17
- DevSecOps Engineer posted Sep 4
- DevSecOps Engineer posted Aug 28
- Cloud Services Architect posted Jul 21
- Senior Platform Engineer posted Jul 20
- Full Stack Developer posted Jun 16
- DevOps Engineer posted Mar 19
From the team and dates on Dark Wolf Solutions's own job board.
Salary context
18 other open postings titled DevSecOps Engineer state a salary: median USD 121,500 to USD 165,700 a year.
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